Blair, there a a couple of us waiting for these engines. The current holdup are harnesses. Another week I think.
Whilst the purchase was a decision based primarily on registration requirements and ease of installation I'm now quite keen to see what the thing can do. It seems the engine has quite some potential.
Here a thread copy from the LS1.com forums to a L76 question posed from an american source.
Quote "The G8 (VE in AUS) has the L98. The bottom end is the same as a LS2 with slightly lower compression but uses L92 heads based on the LS7 design and a ****ty cam. The LS2 used LS6 heads. Down here cam swaps have seen over 320rwkw (430+ rwhp). The L98 has no DOD hardware. The L76 down here had the hardware but it wasn't used or operational. We have seen 270rwkw from the VE with just a tune, exhaust and CAI. There are also cars deep in the 12's unopened and id say within a month some running 11's unopened." Unquote.
As we know the L76/L98 has a bore/stroke of 101.6 X 92mm. What a lot of folks don't know is that the L76 has a bigger brother called the L92 which is 6.2 Ltr making 403 hp and 417Lbs-Ft (6000rpm) in the standard version. Comes off the same line. Same crank, same stroke, same block and liners, same rods, same heads and intake, just slightly larger bore and cam and tune. Evidently the slightly larger bore unshrouds the valves and really gets the heads working.
So the potential is huge.... Good pipes, cold air, and a tune to make 270rwkw ( as above) in the L76 or add a cam and you have 320 rwkw.....punch it out to 103.25 bore, and plug in some L92 slugs to get to 6.2 Ltrs, appropriate cam, tune and they make close to 370kw (500 HP.)
Thats LS7 country
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